can you find the true definition or will you choose a daffynition? Here are your choices:

1. A rascal, an itinerant farm laborer.

2. A U-shaped pipe used in plumbing that connects a vertical pipe with a horizontal pipe.

3. One who urinates on rocks.

4. The secondary krill filters on a baleen whale.

5. The third of a cow's four stomachs.

6. A pink two-inches-or-so-in-diameter rubber ball used by children, usually poorer kids in bigger cities like New York and Chicago where they play on the sidewalks and in the streets (in stickball, two manhole covers is an automatic home run!)

7. A knife containing a small hammer and blade combined for minor shoe repairs.

8. A Welsh variation of Irish step-dance.

9. A rough hammered surface on metal.

10. A joke told using props.

"Wishing in gladness and in safety, may all beings be at ease." ~from the Metta Sutta

5. The third of a cow's four stomachs. Kalleh (I was sure this one would get some votes. I thought it was the most creative!)

6. A pink two-inches-or-so-in-diameter rubber ball used by children, usually poorer kids in bigger cities like New York and Chicago where they play on the sidewalks and in the streets (in stickball, two manhole covers is an automatic home run!) Haberdasher (Proofreader fell for this one. He used a rock, though.)

7. A knife containing a small hammer and blade combined for minor shoe repairs. Arnie (kalleh voted for this.)

8. A Welsh variation of Irish step-dance. Proofreader

9. A rough hammered surface on metal. Geoff

10. A joke told using props. sattva

"Wishing in gladness and in safety, may all beings be at ease." ~from the Metta Sutta

A pink two-inches-or-so-in-diameter rubber ball used by children, usually poorer kids in bigger cities like New York and Chicago where they play on the sidewalks and in the streets (in stickball, two manhole covers is an automatic home run!) Haberdasher (Proofreader fell for this one. He used a rock, though.)

I think what he meant was that after a while the rubber petrified and essentially the ball turned into a rock, so it didn't bounce very well any more...

It was made by the Spalding company, and you could get it for a quarter or so in the candy store or the Five-and-Ten. The official name was the Spalding Hi-Bounce but it morphed into a "spaldeen," which might have lured you in.

Oh, and some hammers have a ball on the side opposite the face, instead of a nail-removing claw. That's the peen, and they're called "ball-peen hammers."